Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.